befores & afters

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Pixar visual effects supervisor Sudeep Rangaswamy about 'Inside Out 2', including about new character rigging and particle approaches, using RenderMan, simulating that crazy memory orb avalanche, and more.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to RISE visual effects supervisor Andreas Giesen about the Amazon Prime Video series, 'Fallout', including that opening nuclear set of explosions.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Chad Wanstreet, the visual effects supervisor on HBO's 'The Sympathizer' about the crazy private lounge scene that features multiple characters played by Robert Downey Jr., with impressive face replacement work, plus many other scenes in the series.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Ripley' visual effects producer Joseph Servodio and visual effects supervisor John Bowers about the 'murder boat' scene, environments and *that* wig.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to HaZ Dulull, co-founder of HaZimation and the director of the indie CG animated feature 'MAX BEYOND.'

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Jabbar Ray Saaknee Raisani (who is an Executive Producer, Director & VFX Supervisor on the show), and Marion Spates (a VFX Supervisor on Airbender) about Appa, Momo, the badger mole and the ostrich horse.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Oliver Cubbage about the Hulu series, 'We Were the Lucky Ones.'

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Wojciech Zielinski about season 2 of  Halo The Series . We discuss lots of different aspects of the VFX work, including shooting the battles, carrying out on set stunts, delivering creatures and also environments.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Lawmen: Bass Reeves' visual effects supervisor Jon Massey about the set extensions, Civil War scenes and more in the show.

Ian Failes chats to Marvel visual effects supervisor Christopher Townsend about season 2 of 'Loki'. In particular we jump into all aspects of time slipping, spaghettification, the loom and the invisible visual effects in this season.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to lead visual effects supervisor Jason Zimmerman about two Star Trek shows: season 2 of Strange New Worlds and season 5 of Discovery. For Strange New Worlds, we dive into the creature effects for the Gorn. Then for Discovery, we start with the amazing sand runner sequence, the Itrinok creatures and the Breen ship.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to '3 Body Problem' visual effects supervisor Stefen Fangmeier about the Netflix series, including about ship slicing, the VR game, dehydration of bodies, and that chrome VR headset.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Framestore visual effects supervisor Josh Simmonds about the Adam Driver film, '65'. We get into the 'role' of VFX in helping to craft a story.

Ian Failes chats to Chris Nichols, director of special projects at the Chaos Innovation Lab, about Chaos' Project Arena. This is an upcoming toolset that lets artists move V-Ray assets and animations to LED walls.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to director and VFX artist Adrian Bobb about making his short film 'The Fore-Men'. 

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Imageworks visual effects supervisor Jason Greenblum about 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor and Disney Imagineer Tim Landry, looking back at this experience at Dream Quest Images, including on 'The Crow', and later at Walt Disney Imagineering. 

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Paul Katte from Make-up Effects Group about 'The Matrix' and his team's practical effects for the pod baby, the bug effects for Keanu's torso and an arm break effect.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Alessandro Ongaro, the visual effects supervisor 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire', about prep'ing the huge film, the extensive previs, traveling to multiple locations for shoots and reference, and how specific scenes were crafted.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Yeti creator Colin Doncaster about his career in VFX and software development via his company Peregrine Labs.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Bruce Hunt, second unit director on 'The Matrix' about the helicopter rescue and crash, involving real stunt photography over Sydney, and the miniature greenscreen chopper explosion shoot as well.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to FMX project manager Mario Müller about this year's VFX and animation event happening in Stuttgart in April. 

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Ryo Sakaguchi, the production visual effects supervisor for the Japanese Netflix series 'YuYu Hakusho', about new volumetric capture tech from Eyeline Studios used on the show.

Ian Failes chats to stunt coordinator and second unit director Wayne Dalglish, and to action designer and stunt previs artist Christopher Clements, both from Sandbox Action Design, about that spaceship hallway oner in 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3', which was the set to the tune of the Beastie Boys No Sleep til Brooklyn.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to REALTIME visual effects supervisor James Coore to discuss the 60th anniversary Doctor Who special 'Wild Blue Yonder'.